| Show SHOWS NEED Of NEW UTILITIES ACT Hollenbeck Bill ates Desire For Changes I Special CAPITOL SALT LAKE Feb 8 8 the HolInbeck bill repeal repeal- ng hg the tho public utilities commission act Utah 1 was as killed In the houge Ved Wed Wednesday that action seems only t to have Stimulated have 1 the desire for n this question tor Cor the debate debato on the measure 10 c that not most members of or the house believe bellee belle e t that the present act Is ta far from sat sat- sat satisfactory S It had been shown n that the public had no o presenting Its side ft or controversies to the com com- missIon at hearings and debate Wed Wed- nesda brought out that the com commis commission sion Ion has hns no adequate means of checking the mass of ot that counsel utilities for Cor corpor present present WEBER VOTE OTE III There were 26 v votes tes cast for tor the bill to repeal the tho act and 6 against the bill The measure died then and there thero because the constitutional majority was l lacking by t O Weber county's tour our ere divided dl In the voting Representatives Bro Browning and Brewer vot- vot vot d Cor or the repeal and those hose voting j the repeal 1 were ere Bailey Dalley and I Jacobs Jacobs'S S 'S BROWNING KS The public always has got the worst the worst of It from the utilities tion I Ion de declared lared Representative Brown of or Weber Vebe county Re corporation schedules means a ad I vances ance advances In rates The ower costs no more today than it I Id ten years ago but the to I toI he public is greater greate It the corn corn- I ascertain more lie definite ton utilities and the need needa of the public Representative Pembroke said Ight had been lost of oC the big things which tile the utilities commission ha 1 one and that the opponents of ot 1111 lus ere thinking only of or I v that had been dono The state has been saved n the lost Iet three thee years ears In 1 Mr Pembroke said It has hasI has I enabled mines to run when hen other othe- otherwise wise ise the they might have been forced to tov ose allowed Iose down by freight Increases al lowed to by the Interstate commerce but disallowed by the commission FUNDS MIXED IL DJ UP Ul According to a report ort submitted to toj j the house of or representatives Wednes Wednesday day conclusion Is reached that there has been Improper segregation of or e- e e bet between een the secretary or I contingent fund and the vehIcle fund has been utilized to clea and cover er certain disbursement which i It Jf lawfully fully made should have ha been I charged to the tan secre-tan r contingent fund or perhaps to state department The report 1 is approved by the joInt committee On the pre of the before the house Representative Represent Jorgensen of or the house committee moved Its adoption that journal be printed In full in the house jour jour- jour tit nal and that copies bo be sent to the attorney general fo for his Information IL f HASTY TY ACTION Contention by M Mr Callister In his to delay consideration of or the 1 1 was ns to the effect that It wes ot too great Importance to dispose of It not only contained II 1 al fo for the appropriation of 1000 but the house members he thought whether hether were entitled to know heth- heth er Irregularities had ensued in III the of or states state's office or heth r a different construction had heen on the law bv the office from Ii that of or the reporting reporting- committee I The report III probably come be fore Core before the louse house today under unfinished Ish ed busl business I IThe The cub committee the elate engineers engineer's office and that of the state road while while's s no report report's s 's understood to ha have hae e arrived cd at the Inthe that these t two 0 offices In the efficiency interest of economy ny and cy y should be consolidated Recommendations I expected to this effect are expect ed to be Included In the report The suggested consolidation would led eliminate nate the three roal commissioners and the state engineer S oC these officials i it In the I Is proposed tenta tenta- th 1 or el i of public 1 01 ks be lie created The Tho 1 Ping and anI all other work done bv the t O would bc con I I to the proposaL |
